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The (new) Quantum Rose, Chapter Two
I've posted Chapter Two of The (new) Quantum Rose on my Patreon page:
www.patreon.com/posts/43137948
Art Credit: Elena Dudina, www.deviantart.com/elenadudina/art/Ro...
The original book won the Nebula Award for Best novel.
Again, I'd like to invite comments, suggestions, and general editorial input on the writing.
Here are the first few paragraphs of the chapter ...
II
The Offer
(Incoming Wave)
Jul, the sun, had sunk behind the trees by the time Kamoj and Lyode walked around the last bend of the road, into view of Argali House. Seeing her home, Kamoj’s spirits lifted.
Legend claimed the house had once been luminescent pearl, all one surface with no seams. According to the temple scholar, who could read bits of the ancient codices, the ancients had grown Argali House in a huge vat of liquid, on a framework of machines called nanobots, which supposedly were so tiny you couldn’t see them even with a magnifying glass. After these little machines completed the house, supposedly they simply swam away and fell apart.
Kamoj smiled. Absurdities filled the old scrolls. During one of her visits to Ironbridge about ten years ago, Jax had shown her one in his library. It stated Balumil, the world, went around Jul in an “elliptical orbit” and rotated around a tilted axis. This tilt, and their living here in the north, purportedly explained why the nights lasted such a short time in summer and went on for so long in winter, fifty-five hours of darkness at the solstice, leaving only five hours of sunlight ...
www.patreon.com/posts/43137948
Art Credit: Elena Dudina, www.deviantart.com/elenadudina/art/Ro...
The original book won the Nebula Award for Best novel.
Again, I'd like to invite comments, suggestions, and general editorial input on the writing.
Here are the first few paragraphs of the chapter ...
II
The Offer
(Incoming Wave)
Jul, the sun, had sunk behind the trees by the time Kamoj and Lyode walked around the last bend of the road, into view of Argali House. Seeing her home, Kamoj’s spirits lifted.
Legend claimed the house had once been luminescent pearl, all one surface with no seams. According to the temple scholar, who could read bits of the ancient codices, the ancients had grown Argali House in a huge vat of liquid, on a framework of machines called nanobots, which supposedly were so tiny you couldn’t see them even with a magnifying glass. After these little machines completed the house, supposedly they simply swam away and fell apart.
Kamoj smiled. Absurdities filled the old scrolls. During one of her visits to Ironbridge about ten years ago, Jax had shown her one in his library. It stated Balumil, the world, went around Jul in an “elliptical orbit” and rotated around a tilted axis. This tilt, and their living here in the north, purportedly explained why the nights lasted such a short time in summer and went on for so long in winter, fifty-five hours of darkness at the solstice, leaving only five hours of sunlight ...
